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"For 150 million years, the skies didn't belong to birds--they belonged to the pterosaurs. These flying reptiles, which include the pterodactyls, shared the world with the nonavian dinosaurs until their extinction 65 million years ago. Some pterosaurs, such as the giant azhdarchids, were t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Witton, Mark P., 1984-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013.
Temas:
Pterosauria > Evolution.
Pterosauria > Anatomy.
Ptérosauriens > Évolution.
Ptérosauriens > Anatomie.
SCIENCE > Paleontology.
NATURE > Animals > Reptiles & Amphibians.
NATURE > Animals > Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures.
Anatomie
Bewegung
Paläobiologie
Flugsaurier
Evolution
Palökologie
Mesozoikum
Morphologie > Biologie
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Leathery-Winged Harpies
  • 2. Understanding the Flying Reptiles
  • 3. Pterosaur Beginnings
  • 4. The Pterosaur Skeleton
  • 5. Soft Bits
  • 6. Flying Reptiles
  • 7. Down from the Skies
  • 8. The Private Lives of Pterosaurs
  • 9. The Diversity of Pterosaurs
  • 10. Early Pterosaurs and Dimorphodontidae
  • 11. Anurognathidae
  • 12. "Campylognathoidids"
  • 13. Rhamphorhynchidae
  • 14. Wukongopteridae
  • 15. Istiodactylidae
  • 16. Ornithocheiridae
  • 17. Boreopteridae
  • 18. Pteranodontia
  • 19. Ctenochasmatoidea
  • 20. Dsungaripteroidea
  • 21. Lonchodectidae
  • 22. Tapejaridae
  • 23. Chaoyangopteridae
  • 24. Thalassodromidae
  • 25. Azhdarchidae
  • 26. The Rise and Fall of the Pterosaur Empire
  • References
  • Index.

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